Restrict operations for a member node

The IBM Security Identity Manager virtual appliance cluster is composed of one primary node and other nodes that are called as member nodes. To configure the virtual appliance, we must work from the primary node. The configuration options from the Configure menu and the Manage menu on the Appliance Dashboard are listed in Table 1.

Configure	Manage
Directory Server Configuration	Update History
Database Server Configuration	Licensing
Directory Integrator Configuration	Firmware Settings
Mail Server Configuration	Fix Packs
Upload Feed File	Log Retrieval and Configuration
Identity External User Registry Configuration	About
Single Sign-On Configuration	Memory
Custom File Management	CPU
Library and Workflow Extension	Storage
Update Property	Application
Application Server Certificate Management	Date/Time
	Administrator Settings
	Snapshots
	Support Files
	Restart or Shut down

The operations for any of the configuration options from the Configure menu are restricted from being done on a member node. All these options are available in read-only mode on a member node. We can work with these options only from a primary node. But we can work with the manage options from the Manage menu from both, primary and member node.

If you open any configuration page from the Configure menu on the member node to modify any configuration information, a warning message is displayed.

If you ignore the warning message and continue to modify any of the configuration information from the Configure menu, a warning message indicates that we cannot complete the operation.

The restriction exists because ISIM virtual appliance is a member of a cluster, which does not contain the role of a primary node.

Parent topic: Troubleshooting virtual appliance problems